Welcome to my website, where you should find everything you need to know about my work as a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothian Region.

I want to be accessible and open to my constituents as possible. This website will allow you to get in touch and will let you see what I am doing within the local Region and the Scottish Parliament each week.

I want to create a Scotland where it is a young person’s potential, ambition and work rate that determine how far they get on in life – not where they were born. Only by investing in education and our vital public services can we make that Scotland a reality.

The Scottish Labour Party is ambitious for Scotland. We are focused on using the powers of our Scottish Parliament to invest in the future, rather than re-running the old arguments of the past. The Scottish people deserve nothing less.

AN OPEN AND ACCESSIBLE MSP

I believe it is important to offer constituents the opportunity to speak to their elected representatives as much as possible. I will be holding regular accessible surgeries in the Scottish Parliament and across the region each month to give constituents the opportunity to meet me to discuss any issues or concerns you may have.

You can click on the Surgeries link at the top of my website to see where I will be and when.

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Kezia spoke in this afternoon's Scottish Government debate on Celebrating the Role of Credit Unions in Scotland’s Communities.

"I'm a member of Capital Credit Union, a member of Castle Community Bank and as a Co-op sponsored MSP I believe fundamentally in co-operatives and in particular I see Credit Unions not just as some sort of couthy feel-good service but as a serious mainstream alternative to a number of other financial options and institutions."

THIS week, tens of thousand of homes in the Edinburgh Eastern, North and Leith and Central constituencies will receive a copy of my annual report through letterboxes. This report outlines just some of the work my office and I have undertaken over the past year both in Parliament and across the region.

In Parliament, I’ve challenged the Scottish Government on the social care crisis affecting the city, the negative impact of short-term lets on residents, demanded improvements to temporary accommodation as well as the fast-tracking of benefits, now the Scottish Parliament has greater control over our welfare system, to name just a few issues I took on last year.

In the region over the past 12 months, I conducted 36 advice surgeries across the city and have plans to hold even more again this year.

"Unless the Prime ­Minister can buy off around 100 MPs with peerages and pork barrel politics by 7pm tonight, her Brexit deal is going to be voted down in the House of Commons.

That leaves a no deal Brexit as ­probably the odds on favourite ­outcome as the clock runs down to the 29 March, our deadline day for ­leaving the European Union.

Thanks to the wily work of a few proper parliamentarians, notably Dominic Grieve and Yvette Cooper, the Government will be required to come back within three days rather than 21 days to report on what ­happens next."

Kezia Dugdale and Brodie, the politicians golden cocker spaniel puppy, supported the Dogs Trust at the annual Greyfriars Bobby commemorative event at Greyfriars Kirk today Edinburgh to mark the 147th anniversary of the death of Greyfriars Bobby.

The Dogs Trust this year took on the privilege of organising the annual event to observe the continued importance of man’s best friend.

As the one o’clock gun sounded, which is said to be the time at which Bobby left his master’s grave each day for a free meal at a nearby café, there was a short outdoor commemorative service followed by pupils from George Heriot school laying flowers a Bobby’s headstone.

Commenting on the anniversary, Kezia Dugdale MSP said:

“My partner and I have recently become the proud owners of our own gorgeous golden cocker spaniel, Brodie, and we’ve loved every minute of having him in our lives. The story of Greyfriars Bobby is one that everyone grows up learning about that shows the extraordinary bond that exists between dogs and their owners.

“It is such a well-known and heart-warming feature from Edinburgh’s history that people from all over the world now come to visit the Greyfriars Bobby statue when they are in the city.

“I want to praise the Dogs Trust for taking on this year’s commemorative event and ensuring that the anniversary was marked again with the support it deserves.”

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